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Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Chronicles 32:27
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C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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Hezekiah's riches; concluding estimate of his reign; his death and burial. - Ch2 32:27. Like Jehoshaphat ( Ch2 17:5; Ch2 18:1), Solomon ( Ch2 1:12), and David ( Ch1 29:28), Hezekiah attained to riches and glory, and made unto himself treasure-chambers for silver, gold, precious stones, and spices, shields, and all manner of splendid furniture. The מגנּים are named instead of weapons in general. The collection of them brings to recollection the כּליו בּית ( Kg2 20:13 and Isa 39:2). Ch2 32:28 Storehouses also (magazines) for the agricultural produce, and stalls for all manner of cattle, and stalls for the herds, like David ( Ch1 27:25.) and Uzziah ( Ch2 26:10). מסכּנות is a transposition of מכנסות, storehouses, from כּנס, to heap up. "Cattle and cattle" = all kinds of cattle. ארות, synonymous with אריות ( Ch2 9:5), stables or stalls for cattle. The word אורות, which occurs only here, must have the same signification, and be held to be a transposed form of that word. Ch2 32:29 And cities (?) made (procured) he for himself. ערים cannot in this connection denote the usual cities; it must mean either watch-towers (from עוּר, to watch) or dwelling-places for herds and cattle, since עיר, according to Kg2 17:9, is used of any enclosed place, from a watch-tower to a fenced city. רכוּשׁ, as in Ch2 31:3, of possessions in herds. Ch2 32:30 The same Hezekiah covered the upper outlet of the water Gihon, and brought it down westwards to the city of David, i.e., by a subterranean channel into the city of David (see on Ch2 32:3). The form ויישׁרם is Piel ויישּׁרם; the Keri is the same conjug., only contracted into ויּשּׁרם, as ויּבּשׁ for וייבּשׁ, the ו of the third person having amalgamated with the first radical, under the influence of the ו consec. With the last clause in Ch2 32:30 cf. Ch2 31:21; Ch1 29:23. Ch2 32:31 "And so (i.e., accordingly) in the case of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, ... God left him." וכן does not denote attamen; it never has an adversative meaning. Bertheau rightly translates, "and accordingly," with the further remark, that by וכן the account of Hezekiah's treatment of the Babylonian ambassadors, which could not be reckoned among his fortunate deeds, is brought into harmony with the remark that he prospered in all his undertakings. It was permitted by God that Hezekiah should on this occasion be lifted up, and should commit an iniquity which could not but bring misfortune with it; not in order that He might plunge him into misfortune, but to try him, and to humble him (cf. Ch2 32:26). Ch2 32:32 הסדים, pious deeds, as in Ch2 6:42. ישׂ הזון is the book of Isaiah's prophecies; see the Introduction. Ch2 32:33 Hezekiah was buried "on the height of the graves of the sons of David," perhaps because there was no longer room in the hereditary burying-place of the kings; so that for Hezekiah and the succeeding kings special graves had to be prepared in a higher place of the graves of the kings. "They did him honour in his death," by the burning of many spices, as we may conjecture (cf. Ch2 16:14; Ch2 21:19). Next: 2 Chronicles Chapter 33
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